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Looking at him with the most pointed contempt I could assume, I departed in silence; but with more heart-felt ease than I had experienced a long while, convinced now that Eugenia was not with him, nor of course in that part of the country. Having in a short time settled every thing with Count Zimchaw's heir, who was also led to believe his relation was my wife, and at my Castle; I left Suabia to return home, richer, but more wretched, than before I had known the Count and his daughter. On my arrival I learned that every search had been fruitless respecting the ungrateful woman, who had so shamefully and suddenly deserted us, I sought to amuse my mind by embellishing my Castle; but in vain I endeavoured to root out my ill-fated passion from my heart.—Eugenia, beautiful and engaging, was ever before my eyes, and threw me into a gloomy dejection, from whence nothing could rouse me. The little society that I had sometimes indulged in, grew hateful to me, love, and a